The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims. — Laozi Copy Share Image
People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve. — Laozi Copy Share Image
To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view. — Laozi Copy Share Image
An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest. — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he… — Laozi Copy Share Image
People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Those who act on excitement act intermittently; this is hardly the way to avoid regression. Those whose understanding comes from emotional perceptions… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“In East Asia generally, the notion of a Supreme Being, so essential to Western religions, is replaced by that of a Supreme… — John Blofeld Copy Share Image
Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations,… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The powerful and prominent soar like dragons, the heroic and valiant fight like tigers: but if you look upon them with cool… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“You can trust everyone to be human, with all the quirks and inconsistencies we humans display, including disloyalty, dishonesty and downright treachery.… — Stephen Russell Copy Share Image
“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all… — Liezi Copy Share Image
“The Formless Way We look at it, and do not see it; it is invisible. We listen to it, and do not… — Tao Te Ching - Translated by S. Beck Copy Share Image
“Currently where you are is on a huge globe with a relatively thin crust of stone, containing fire in its bowels, rotating… — Stephen Russell Copy Share Image
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century, Buddhism and Taoism gained many adherents in Europe who banged gongs and breathed through their diaphragm and talked… — Patrik Ouředník Copy Share Image
